adulterium

ădultĕrĭum, ii, n. [adulter].

I.

Adultery:

Adulterium est cum aliena uxore coire,

Quint. 7, 3, 10:

qui in adulterio deprehenditur,

Cic. de Or. 2, 68, 275:

mulierem in adulterio deprehensam,

Vulg. Joan. 8, 3:

cum aliqua facere,

Cat. 67, 36:

inire,

Vell. 2, 45:

adulteria exercere,

Suet. Aug. 69:

adulterio cognoscere alicujus uxorem,

Just. 22, 1:

vasa adulteriis caelata,

decorated with immodest figures, Plin. 14, 22, 28, § 140.—Of brutes:

nec (elephanti) adulteria novere,

Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 13; id. 10, 34, 52, § 104.—Of plants, an ingrafling, inoculating, Manil. 5, 266.—

II.

Adulteration:

omnia in adulterium mellis excogitata,

Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80:

mercis,

id. 19, 3, 15, § 44.